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New CPR method helps save lives

Some startling numbers...nationwide sudden cardiac arrest accounts for almost 300,000 deaths per year. Survival is tragically low at approximately 8% nationwide because many times bystanders don't know how to help.

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn--Some startling numbers...nationwide sudden cardiac arrest accounts for almost 300,000 deaths per year. Survival is tragically low at approximately 8% nationwide because many times bystanders don't know how to help.

You may have heard there's been a change in how CPR is administered.

The biggest change in the past few years is that mouth to mouth resuscitation is no longer a focus - steady consistent compressions is the key.

Improving bystander CPR rates in Minnesota will save more lives. Around the country bystander rates are as high as 62%, however in Minnesota our bystander CPR rate is nearly half at 34%.